Wikipedia killed its AI summary experiment after just 9 days when volunteer editors warned it would cause "irreversible harm" to the site's credibility.

Earlier this week, Wikimedia Commons, the organization behind Wikipedia, announced its plan to conduct a two-week trial of AI-generated summaries of articles at the top of the articles’ pages. In the announcement,

The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind Wikipedia, made the unfortunate decision to announce the trial of a new AI-fueled article generator this week. The backlash from the site’s editors was so swift and so vengeful that the organization quickly walked back its idea, announcing a temporary “pause” of the new feature.